Navpreet Singh Deported from Türkiye in Narco Trafficking Case

The correct answer is Türkiye. Navpreet Singh, named by the Ministry of Home Affairs as a hardened kingpin of the narcotics trade, had settled in Türkiye and taken Turkish nationality under the invented identity of Navab Virk. Indian agencies stripped away that cover, established who he really was and secured his handover; he reached India on 3 October 2026 and was put behind bars in drug-trafficking and other criminal cases. The United Arab Emirates is wrong because no Gulf state figures in this particular operation. Thailand is wrong for the same reason, and the smuggling route described here runs from Afghanistan into India rather than through South-East Asia. Portugal is wrong because no European Union member is named in the deportation. Only Türkiye, whose citizenship he had obtained fraudulently, sent him back.

The correct answer is Navab Virk. That was the false name under which the narco-trafficking kingpin secured citizenship of Türkiye, and behind it he continued sending heroin and methamphetamine into India from Afghanistan. Indian agencies removed one layer of the disguise after another, fixed his real identity as Navpreet Singh, and obtained his deportation; he was jailed in India in drug-trafficking and other criminal cases. Navdeep Brar is wrong because no such alias is mentioned anywhere in the government statement. Nawaz Virdi is wrong: it only resembles the real alias in sound and is not the name on the Turkish papers. Noor Virk is wrong for the same reason, a near-miss on the surname alone. Candidates should fix both names together, the real one and the forged one.

The correct answer is 288 fugitives from 36 countries. That is the count the Ministry of Home Affairs gave for the period from 2019 up to August 2026, during which returning absconders was pursued as a national priority through global outreach, close coordination between agencies and diplomacy. The other three options alter either the number of fugitives or the number of countries and so do not match the official figure. Option A understates both; option B is closer but still wrong on each count; option D inflates both. Students should also link the figure to the legal groundwork of the same period: the NIA and UAPA amendments of 2019, the mission-mode drive from 2020, and the BHARATPOL platform that speeds up information sharing with the CBI.

The correct answer is January 2025. BHARATPOL was launched then by the Union Home Minister to improve coordination, connectivity and information sharing between Indian and foreign law enforcement agencies. It places the CBI, state police headquarters working through Interpol Liaison Officers, and district police headquarters on one platform, and more than 1,400 offices of state and central agencies are connected to it. As a result, material the CBI seeks now arrives in 10 to 20 days, and sometimes in 3 to 10 days, which helps extradition cases such as this one move faster. August 2023, July 2024 and March 2026 are wrong because the platform was neither announced nor opened in those months; only the January 2025 launch is on record in the government statement.